12:12, 12/12/12

When you see a time and date like that, you have to pause for a moment and reflect. It seems profound, important somehow.

It doesn’t have to have any deep meaning, of course, it’s just a beautiful alignment that is both rare and inevitable. I can understand why people choose it for something like a wedding ceremony. It’s certainly memorable.

When it occurs smack in the middle of the Annual SitePoint Christmas Sale, it also gives us an excuse to go a little crazy.

Ricky Onsman is a freelance web designer, developer, editor and writer. With a background in information and content services, he built his first website in 1994 for a disability information service and has been messing about on the Web ever since.